My channel was deleted... HOW?
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a cautionary example that even security-savvy people can be phished, especially in threads about hacked or terminated channels.
What it is
Scam-baiter Jim Browning explains how he fell for a phishing email and ended up deleting his own YouTube channel. He walks through the circumstances and prior incidents that made the scam convincing.
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What Hacker News said
Cites e40 · 2021-09 · on “The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated”
This is what happened to Jim Browning (YT channel about scammers... very entertaining). He was tricked into it. [this video]
Cites i67vw3 · 2022-04 · on “Ask HN: Phishing – ever fallen to a scam? Or dodged an attempt?”
Not me or any individuals I know of (luckily). The above 60-year-old in family do not do any online financial transactions. When they need to do it, they usually ask the younger ones. Also, when they get random messages about renewing their insurance/warranty or some similar stuff, most of the time they cross-check (verify) it with the younger ones. 1.) Recently, there was an instance where I could have drained my cryptocurrency wallet. Usually I bookmark the defi domains and visit the sites via bookmarks. But that day, for some reason, I used a search engine to visit the site. The first or second result was a fake domain very similar to the real one. I visited the site and was just about to
Cites staticassertion · 2022-04 · on “I'm a security engineer and I still almost got scammed”
[this video] Jim Browning is an expert in this area and is sort of famous for his "scamming the scammers" videos where he hacks, tricks, annoys, or otherwise scams scammers. In the linked video he talks about how he was tricked into deleting his account. These things can happen to anyone, even experts.
Cites rafaelm · 2023-03 · on “Linus Tech Tips channel hacked”
A lot of YouTube channels are getting hacked recently with the same "sponsorship offer" hack. Wonder if this was the case here as well. Paul Hibbert got hit recently. This video has more details on this works and how the bypass 2FA : [this video]